THE NEW YORKER made out by Al Capone. None of them has done It yet. M en in Bronze M ANY people think Gène Tunney posed for the central figure of the war-memorial group at Sixty- sixth Street and Fifth Avenue. We asked the sculptor, Mr. Karl Illava, about that, and he said it wasn't Tun- ney at all-it was a Mr. Paul Cornell, head of an advertising agency. He was picked to pose for it because he repre- sented, in the sculptor's opinion, a typical American. (Scratch a bronze soldier and you find an advertising man. ) While we were on the subject we found out who else appears in that spirited infantry attack. The figures on either side of Mr. Cornell-figures representing the brute in war-are Kenneth Logan, a Scarsdale realtor, and Mr. OUin J. Coit, big-game hunter and fnend of the late Theodore Roose- velt. Mr. Logan is on Mr. Cornell's right; Mr. Coit on his left. Nobody was asked to pose for the dying soldier, because there is a superstition about posing for death scenes, but George E. Holl, the etcher, not being superstitious, .' Á;: !$ .1] :::;1j1\::'1:: .., :::: t,' $i{, A< ... .......lM :?:: .} "Y: :: ! (' i';1 "",.,., n 11/' \ \>"jG .,.. ,.. ' ' ; ' " : ; ': '. :.... ' , ; : : , , : : , . ; , ;, , , ,: ;' : ' ,< ' . ::<::l:\!i[ih: :l::;::'.: ;, I :- .-.-. :. :::.>:. ::"::.::.: -. 1 1é :) f... i;: i; ;<:.::t , A , -Q' : ' ,-,-'.. ... . :::: *} _..-.... ....W{....... rr ft::T. ... -.... :f:::::f {;: ?:: : : : .. ... ." -::- ......... I ' i 2 f '. l'Ir -i . , ) } F"' (3 "" .'. . ", :; /.<:::,,;, ,,\." !) ,}; lf' ,/,.;. , ' : t ,f" . .,% ",,".. , : \,-,: .. "" ,.'" - i , "" ,'",,', ,:.:--.. '-; : volunteered his services. Mr. Illava told us that 11r. Holl found the rôle of dying soldier attractive to him because he was naturally a shrinking type. The soldier who seems about to hurl a hand grenade is Russell T. Kirby, who lives in Bronxville and who would be the last man in the world, :Y1r. Illava assured us, to throw a grenade. He is the erudite type, and was picked to pose for a grenade-thrower because he represented the slow, thoughtful fighter. The man suppûrting the dy- ing soldier is l\1erwin Shrady, son of the late Henry Merwin Shrady, sculp- tor . None of the men in the group was in the 107 th Infantry Regiment which the statue commemorates, but several of them saw military service. Y ou ought to he able to pass Sixty- ixth Street and Fifth Avenue now with a good deal more confidence. M id1zigllt i1Z Brooklyn A LADY who lives in Brooklyn had been visiting friends in Manhat- tan the other night and, waiving a1l escort, decided to go home alone, by taxi. It was rather late for her quiet neighborhood when she reached the door; more, she found she had forgot- . -%t" :,t- " '::" ,r>\>\; .,:;;f)jl .J'::', '" ". i :'?i:': ':"",:\,;< :;:,#.w ;; :o{ : ,::: ,:::\r::H :r J:J : '.4 :' :': ?;.:::., :- :..::.::* =f::: ' . ::. ::: .::;::::: :::;; ":: t. it. : :.:.:: ' i::::::' J :.;:; .. :: :. .:=;:::: .;....'.',.., =:;;:;',.:::.' : ::;. ::::: ::1 ).: :,"': .':: ' : J ; : ,.:.)>: ,:.:.' .:.:.)> :::: ':=: Ç.:::..:. ";:::: . .... ..": ,,.. ...,y':' ".,::;,;: :.:':1: 1 :: ;"': : '::: , ' , .:..,;:<, :> ::::::' :: .: ::: {., ::'.nf:',l:: '1 f!l..::' ....- 0;,' ...-....:.:. ,:,' ",,\$. ........ '.:.:.'. . :.... .:,..Y.A.....; :<<-:-'''!:.'';;: ::' :::::'-:':::"";:: :-::i<.:i;.:::;i-:\....._,. 2: ..... .:" ,.' .' All togetlter, "W Iten Johnny Con es Warching H 011 e" 13 ten her house key, and no amount of ringing wakened anyone inside. The taxi-driver, however, had been watch- ing from the curb. He jumped down from his seat and joined her. He pu1led a bunch of keys from his pocket. "I'll open that door for ya, lady," he said, and did. Then, as she was thank- ing him, he bent close. "Skeleton keys," he whispered, darkly. The lady was grateful, is sti!] grateful, but she is also a little jumpy. W flat's i1z a N a1'Jze S O E of his oldest friends still can Truly Warner, the hat man, "A1." F'or one thing, it is pretty hard to think up a nickname fo.r "Truly." For another, he was real1y christened "Albert J." His present name was chosen, by himself, in 1902, and repre- sents a combination of business acumen and sheer sentiment. TwO' years earlier, in partnership with another man, he had opened his first hat store, near the corner of Broadway and Warren Street. Their combined capital was a little less than seven hundred dollars; their first day's receipts-including a fi ve-dollar bill which someone, for no reason Warner has ever been able to discover, slipped underneath the door- totalled thirty-fi ve dollars. Inside a year, however, they had prospered enough to open a branch store uptown, at Broadway and Thirteenth Street. Then the partners split. They flipped a coin for choice of the two stores. Warner drew the downtown one, and .. :.., ,,/ /, ;'î { ' (/"'t : ' I f' . ,?ij" ::,'< !; ''t$.'' . :: . of/ {f .... h (.." .':.:' /; !t H oping to kindle the spark of n usical gen,ius